The Tinajo Renewal Movement has announced that it will start a new collection of signatures to demand "an improvement in the water service, which puts an end to the constant supply cuts suffered by the municipality".
"Given the negligence or the little interest that the mayor has put in, whom we have asked several times to give explanations of what he has done and we still have no answer, we have no choice but to be the ones to do that work", warns the president and councilor of the party, Antonio Morales.
The councilor recalls that already in the October Plenary "he asked for an appearance by Jesús Machín, so that he would explain what steps he has taken to demand solutions to this serious problem." However, from the party they point out that "he did not even include the appearance in the session", alleging that he was going to convene "an alleged extraordinary plenary session on the subject", which two months later "is still not convened".
The MRT denounces that this Monday another ordinary session has been held and the mayor "has neither included the appearance now, nor has he made any mention of the water issue." "It is clear that he does not care, no matter how much damage he is causing to the municipality", laments Antonio Morales, who states that "Tinajo cannot continue waiting for a mayor who turns his back on the problems of the residents."
For this reason, the Tinajo Renewal Movement has decided to start "a new collection of signatures", as it did more than a year ago, to present them to the Water Consortium and to the entities and institutions with powers "to defend the interests of citizens, so that they in turn demand responsibilities from Canal Gestión." "We will act again as interlocutors of the residents of the municipality with this problem, given the passivity, neglect and negligence of the mayor", the party points out.
The collection of signatures will begin next Monday, December 27, and there will be sheets available to sign in the businesses of the municipality. In addition, the party announces that it will be available to residents through the e-mail centrodeiniciativas@renovartinajo.com or on the telephone 657832366.
Two motions approved unanimously
Regarding the content of the Plenary held this Monday, the Tinajo Renewal Movement defended two motions and both were approved unanimously by all the groups.
With the first, the party is pleased to get the City Council to commit to urge Europe, the Government of Spain, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote "to increase the lines of direct aid to the primary sector and to improve the conditions. "At the beginning of January the price of everything is going to rise. Diesel, gasoline, electricity, gas... have already risen, and the products they need, such as fodder, will also rise. Therefore, what we propose is that all institutions put actions on the table to be able to alleviate and compensate for these cost overruns that are going to occur", explains Antonio Morales.
In addition, the councilor emphasizes that "these lines of aid should also be modified". "For example, the Rural Development Plans (RDP) have to take into account the islands like Lanzarote, because many times they are tailored to the most populated islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife", questioned Morales.
The councilor points out that this implies "that direct aid does not reach traditional crops of Lanzarote, such as zocos; or that natural parks, or the reality of the land in this island, are not taken into account, for example with the issue of slopes, which are smaller, but there are also some."
Similarly, he considers it "unfair" that the island is harmed because these aids "give much priority to cooperativism", when in Lanzarote "it barely exists."
He also sees it necessary "to deepen the training to the primary sector", especially among young people, as well as to extend the deadline to apply for aid. "Many times they take them out in summer, or they take them out with just one month, and it is impossible to have time", adds Antonio Morales. To this, the party adds that in order to benefit from subsidies, farmers and ranchers "are obliged to present and execute the project first, risking that it will not be approved later and they will not be able to recover the investment."
"What we propose is that the projects be approved before, so that people know if they can invest or not and if they are going to give them the money or not, because there are many people who live from day to day to make that kind of investment", highlights the councilor of the MRT.
With the other motion that has also been approved unanimously, the party has achieved "the commitment of the government group to address the Government of the Canary Islands to demand that it carry out works in the Tinajo Health Center." Specifically, to enable "a closed area outside, where patients often have to wait, especially now with the pandemic."
"Although the center is relatively new and has only been inaugurated five years ago, the main entrance and exit area faces north, so the wind and cold are especially noticeable", explains Morales, who warns that when they have to wait there, "patients are exposed to low temperatures and rain".